Lower in Different Languages
Discover 'Lower' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Lower
Afrikaans laer | ||
Albanian më e ulët | ||
Amharic ዝቅተኛ | ||
Arabic خفض | ||
Armenian ավելի ցածր | ||
Assamese তলৰ | ||
Aymara manqhana | ||
Azerbaijani aşağı | ||
Bambara ka lajigin | ||
Basque baxuagoa | ||
Belarusian ніжэйшы | ||
Bengali কম | ||
Bhojpuri निचला | ||
Bosnian niže | ||
Bulgarian нисък | ||
Catalan més baix | ||
Cebuano ubos | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 降低 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 降低 | ||
Corsican più bassu | ||
Croatian niži | ||
Czech dolní | ||
Danish nederste | ||
Dhivehi ތިރިކުރުން | ||
Dogri हेठला | ||
Dutch lager | ||
English lower | ||
Esperanto pli malalta | ||
Estonian madalam | ||
Ewe bɔbɔ | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) mas mababa | ||
Finnish alempi | ||
French inférieur | ||
Frisian leger | ||
Galician inferior | ||
Georgian ქვედა | ||
German niedriger | ||
Greek πιο χαμηλα | ||
Guarani guejy | ||
Gujarati નીચેનું | ||
Haitian Creole pi ba | ||
Hausa ƙananan | ||
Hawaiian lalo | ||
Hebrew נמוך יותר | ||
Hindi कम | ||
Hmong qis dua | ||
Hungarian alsó | ||
Icelandic lægri | ||
Igbo ala | ||
Ilocano pababaen | ||
Indonesian menurunkan | ||
Irish níos ísle | ||
Italian inferiore | ||
Japanese 下 | ||
Javanese ngisor | ||
Kannada ಕಡಿಮೆ | ||
Kazakh төменгі | ||
Khmer ទាបជាង | ||
Kinyarwanda munsi | ||
Konkani कमी | ||
Korean 보다 낮은 | ||
Krio ridyus | ||
Kurdish kêmkirin | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) کەمتر | ||
Kyrgyz төмөн | ||
Lao ຕ່ໍາກວ່າ | ||
Latin minus | ||
Latvian zemāks | ||
Lingala kokitisa | ||
Lithuanian žemesnis | ||
Luganda okussa | ||
Luxembourgish méi niddereg | ||
Macedonian пониско | ||
Maithili निम्नस्तर बला | ||
Malagasy ambany | ||
Malay lebih rendah | ||
Malayalam താഴത്തെ | ||
Maltese inqas | ||
Maori raro | ||
Marathi कमी | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯅꯦꯝꯊꯕ | ||
Mizo hnuailam | ||
Mongolian бага | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) အနိမ့် | ||
Nepali तल्लो | ||
Norwegian nedre | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) kutsitsa | ||
Odia (Oriya) ନିମ୍ନ | ||
Oromo gadi buusuu | ||
Pashto ټیټ | ||
Persian پایین تر | ||
Polish niższy | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) mais baixo | ||
Punjabi ਘੱਟ | ||
Quechua uray | ||
Romanian inferior | ||
Russian ниже | ||
Samoan maualalo | ||
Sanskrit अवच | ||
Scots Gaelic nas ìsle | ||
Sepedi fasana | ||
Serbian ниже | ||
Sesotho tlase | ||
Shona dzikisa | ||
Sindhi هيٺيون | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) පහළ | ||
Slovak nižšie | ||
Slovenian nižje | ||
Somali hoose | ||
Spanish inferior | ||
Sundanese handap | ||
Swahili chini | ||
Swedish lägre | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) mas mababa | ||
Tajik пасттар | ||
Tamil கீழ் | ||
Tatar түбән | ||
Telugu తక్కువ | ||
Thai ต่ำกว่า | ||
Tigrinya ታሕተዋይ | ||
Tsonga ehlisa | ||
Turkish aşağı | ||
Turkmen aşaky | ||
Twi (Akan) deɛ ɛwɔ fam | ||
Ukrainian нижній | ||
Urdu کم | ||
Uyghur تۆۋەن | ||
Uzbek pastroq | ||
Vietnamese thấp hơn | ||
Welsh is | ||
Xhosa ezantsi | ||
Yiddish נידעריקער | ||
Yoruba kekere | ||
Zulu phansi |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | Laer derives from the Dutch word "lager", which can also mean "storage space", as in "kelder" (cellar) |
| Albanian | The Albanian word "më e ulët" also means "the humblest" or "the most modest". |
| Amharic | The word ዝቅተኛ (lower) can also refer to someone who is humble or modest. |
| Arabic | The word "خفض'' also means "to lower one's voice" in Arabic. |
| Azerbaijani | The word "aşağı" can also refer to the area below a mountain or a region downstream in a river |
| Basque | The word "baxuagoa" can also mean "underneath" or "below" in Basque. |
| Belarusian | }ніжэйшы" is also used in Belarusian to refer to a lower social class or caste. |
| Bengali | The Bengali word "কম" is related to the Sanskrit word "कर्म" (karma) meaning "action" or "work". |
| Bosnian | The word "niže" also means "below" or "downward." |
| Bulgarian | The word "низък" also means "humble" or "modest" in Bulgarian, reflecting its historical association with the lower classes. |
| Catalan | The Catalan word "més baix" can also be used to mean "cheaper" or "less expensive". |
| Cebuano | The root word of "ubos" is "ub" which means "end" or "finish". |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 降低, from Chinese 降 (jiang), 'to descend', and 低 (di), 'low' |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 降低 can also mean to humiliate or degrade someone. |
| Corsican | The term "più bassu" in Corsican can also refer to a type of traditional Corsican singing. |
| Croatian | The word "niži" also means "inferior" or "subordinate" in Croatian. |
| Czech | The word "dolní" comes from the common Slavic word "dol" meaning "valley" and can also mean "bad" or "harmful" in some contexts. |
| Danish | The word "nederste" is derived from the Old Norse word "neðri" meaning "lower" or "beneath". |
| Dutch | The Dutch word "lager" also refers to a horizontal piece of wood or metal, such as a beam or girder, used in construction. |
| Esperanto | The word "malalta" derives from the root "mal-", meaning "bad", thus implying a level or condition inferior to another. |
| Estonian | The word madalam also exists in the form `mada` as an adverb or comparative. Madal can also mean `quietly`. |
| Finnish | The word 'alempi' also means 'underworld' in Finnish folklore. |
| French | "Inférieur" can also mean "subordinate" or "inferior" in terms of quality or rank. |
| Frisian | The word 'leger' can also refer to a specific type of fishing net called a 'legger net' in Frisian. |
| Galician | In medieval legal Galician, "inferior" meant "tenant" of a feoff, in contrast to the feoffor, who was "superior" |
| Georgian | The word "ქვედა" has a hidden meaning of "downstream", used in Georgian geography to refer to the areas located downstream of a river. |
| German | The word "niedriger" is also used to describe the altitude of a mountain, as in "der niedrigste Berg im Land" (the lowest mountain in the country). |
| Greek | πιο χαμηλα derives from the Ancient Greek word ταπεινός, meaning “low” or “humble”. |
| Gujarati | નીચેનું is the Gujarati cognate of the Hindi word "नीचे", and also derives from the same Indo-European root as the Latin preposition "inferō". |
| Haitian Creole | Pi ba, meaning 'lower,' comes from the French preposition 'par bas,' meaning 'by way of the bottom'. |
| Hausa | ƙananan is derived from the Arabic 'qasir' meaning 'short', but can also refer to the 'foot' in Hausa |
| Hawaiian | "Lalo" can mean "below", "a bottom", or "a base". |
| Hebrew | The Hebrew word "נמוך יותר" (lower) can also mean shorter or less expensive. |
| Hindi | कम derives from the root 'कम्' meaning to reduce, so it can also mean less, deficient, or poor. |
| Hmong | "Qis dua" can also be used as another word for "short" in some dialects. |
| Hungarian | The word "Alsó" in Hungarian can also mean "undergarment" or "underwear". |
| Icelandic | "Lægri" can also refer to a thigh |
| Igbo | The word ala in Igbo can also refer to a type of traditional Igbo dance. |
| Indonesian | The word "menurunkan" also means "to demote" or "to reduce" in Indonesian. |
| Irish | The word "níos ísle" is a compound of two words meaning "down" and "below", and can also mean "subsequent" or "later". |
| Italian | "Inferiore" can also mean "inferior" or "lower in quality or rank." |
| Japanese | The character 下 can also mean "servant," "subordinate," or "inferior." |
| Javanese | The word "ngisor" in Javanese also means "the underworld" or "hell". |
| Kannada | The word "ಕಡಿಮೆ" can also refer to a small amount or quantity. |
| Kazakh | In Kazakh, "төменгі" (tomengi) can also refer to the lower part of a river or stream. |
| Khmer | The word ទាបជាង can also be used to refer to a person who is humble or modest. |
| Korean | The Korean word "보다 낮은" can also be a slang term for something that is of low quality. |
| Kurdish | The Kurdish word "kêmkirin" originates from the Persian verb "kam kardan", meaning "to reduce or make less." |
| Kyrgyz | "Төмөн" also means "ten thousands" or "10000" in Kyrgyz. |
| Latin | Latin "minus" comes from the Proto-Italic "meinos," meaning 'less,' which is also the source of English "meager." |
| Latvian | The word "zemāks" also means "worse" or "inferior" in Latvian. |
| Lithuanian | The Lithuanian word "žemesnis" can also refer to a person of lower social status. |
| Macedonian | The word "пониско" comes from the Proto-Slavic word "*ponizu", meaning "below" or "low down". |
| Malagasy | The Malagasy word "ambany" also refers to the underside, lower level, or subordination, while its cognate "lamban" in the closely related Ma'anyan language of Borneo means "under, below". |
| Malay | In Malay the term “lebih rendah” which means lower can also be interpreted as “lesser” or “inferior”. |
| Malayalam | The Malayalam word "താഴത്തെ" can also mean "subordinate" or "inferior". |
| Maltese | The word "inqas" in Maltese is derived from the Arabic word "naqasa", meaning "to decrease" or "to become less". It can also refer to something that is inferior or lower in rank or quality. |
| Maori | The word "raro" also has several other meanings, including "down", "below", and "south". |
| Marathi | The word "कमी" in Marathi can also mean "deficiency" or "shortage". |
| Mongolian | The word "бага" can also mean "small" or "younger sibling" in Mongolian. |
| Nepali | The word 'तल्लो' also implies a geographical direction, signifying 'downstream' or 'located towards a river's mouth'. |
| Norwegian | Nedre also refers to the south of Norway, as opposed to Øvre (the north). |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word 'kutsitsa' can also refer to the bottom of a container or the lowest part of a plant. |
| Pashto | The word "ټیټ" can also refer to something that is submissive or humble, or to a person who is not intelligent or capable. |
| Persian | The word "پایین تر" (lower) is derived from the Persian word "پایین" (bottom), and can also mean "underneath" or "beneath". |
| Polish | The word "niższy" in Polish can also refer to "inferior". |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | The Portuguese word 'mais baixo' can also mean 'shorter' or 'softer'. |
| Punjabi | The word "ਘੱਟ" can also mean "minus", "less" or "subtract" in Punjabi. |
| Romanian | Inferior (inferior) refers to the underworld, hell, or the Devil in Romanian folk language. |
| Russian | The word "ниже" can also mean "below" or "under" in Russian, and is derived from the Proto-Slavic word *nizъ, which meant "low" or "down". |
| Samoan | The Samoan word "maualalo" can also refer to the sea or a gathering place. |
| Scots Gaelic | The word "nas ìsle" can also refer to a small animal, like a wren or a mouse. |
| Serbian | The word "ниже" can also mean "downstream" or "downstairs". |
| Sesotho | The word "tlase" can also mean "beneath" or "underneath" in Sesotho. |
| Shona | The word 'dzikisa' is also used to mean 'humiliate' in Shona. |
| Sindhi | The word "هيٺيون" can also refer to the region of lower Sindh. |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | The word "පහළ" can also mean "downstairs" or "below" in Sinhala. |
| Slovak | The word "nižšie" can also mean "lower" in the sense of "in a subordinate position" or "less important". |
| Slovenian | The word "nižje" can also mean "downstairs" or "on the ground floor". |
| Somali | The word "hoose" also has alternate meanings in Somali, but they can't be translated into English. |
| Spanish | The Spanish word "inferior" also means "of lower quality" or "worse". |
| Sundanese | In Sundanese, the word "handap" not only means "lower" but also refers to a direction, specifically "downwards" or "below". |
| Swahili | The word "chini" in Swahili also means "bottom" or "foot". |
| Swedish | The word "lägre" also means "camp" in Swedish, often referring to a military or scouting camp. |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | "Mas mababa" can also mean "more affordable" or "cheaper". |
| Tajik | The Tajik word "пасттар" can also refer to the bottom part of an object or a place that is located lower than another. |
| Tamil | "கீழ்" can also refer to "down" or "underneath" in Tamil. |
| Telugu | తక్కువ is derived from the Proto-Dravidian word *kajj-/*kanj-, meaning "less" or "small." |
| Thai | The word "ต่ำกว่า" also means "less than" when used to compare quantities. |
| Turkish | "Aşağı" can also mean "under" or "less" in Turkish. |
| Ukrainian | The word "нижній" in Ukrainian is thought to descend from "низъ", an Old East Slavic noun meaning "down". Alternatively, it might come from the Old Slavic adjective "nižъ" with a similar meaning. |
| Urdu | The word "کم" also means "less" in Urdu and is used in the context of quantity, number or degree. |
| Uzbek | The Uzbek word "pastroq" is a derivation from the Persian "pastr" or "pastroq," which can be traced back to the Sogdian word "pstre." This word has multiple meanings and can also refer to "submissive" or "subordinate". |
| Vietnamese | Thấp hơn in Vietnamese can refer to both physical and non-physical concepts, such as height, volume, or status. |
| Welsh | In Welsh, is can be a preposition meaning lower down as well as the suffix for the comparative form of an adjective to make it relative. |
| Xhosa | Ezantsi can also mean 'the bottom' or 'the back' in Xhosa. |
| Yiddish | The Yiddish word נידעריקער (nideriker) is related to the German word "nieder," meaning "low" or "inferior." |
| Yoruba | The word "kekere" in Yoruba also means "small" or "young." |
| Zulu | The word 'phansi' also means 'downwards' and 'below' in Zulu. |
| English | The word 'lower' comes from the Old English word 'lagere' and can also refer to a frown or a scowling expression. |